Maid’s new lawyer master at courtroom payouts
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NEW YORK — The new lawyer for the maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape is a master at winning big payouts in civil suits — but his arrival isn’t entirely bad news for the fallen IMF chief.
Kenneth Thompson announced his role in dramatic fashion Monday outside the New York courthouse where Strauss-Kahn had just pleaded not guilty to the alleged sex attack against the 32-year-old west African immigrant cleaning his hotel room on May 14.
“What we are doing it’s to protect her rights, speak for her and to work with the district attorney office,” he said under the courthouse steps where more than 100 journalists jostled to cover the case.
In emotional language, Thompson described his client — who has yet to be seen or heard from in public — as a simple, hard-working woman who had been “traumatized” but was “standing up for her dignity.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110608com5.html
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That lawyer should be invited as honorable speaker at UP Law School graduation. To inspire others how to work the system and gaining form it at the expense of the client. Not something tought in the class rooms. Not theory but - "The Parcatice".
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